Conduit.



W. HOUGHTON.

GONDUIT. APPLICATION FILED JULYZZ, 1908.

928,606. Patented July 20,,1909.

N I BY,

ATTORNEY.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLARD HOUGHTON, OF BRINNON, WASHINGTON.

CONDUIT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLARD HOUGHTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brinnon, in the county of J eflerson and State of l/Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conduits, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices employed in the construction of roads; and its object is the provision of a water conduit adapted for use in diverting the flow of the surfacewater from the wheel ruts so that the danger of a washout from such an agency in inclined or mountain roads is obviated which results in the maintenance of the roadbed in good condition for a long time.

The invention consists in a body adapted to be embedded in a road transversely and is provided in its top surface with a gullet for catching the surface-water and for conducting the same out of the tracks of'vehicle wheels.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is an end view of a water conduit embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a view, partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section, of the same.

The reference numeral 5 designates a tubular body which may be construct-ed of concrete or other suitable material. The periphery of the body is formed to provide quadrilaterally disposed faces 6 wherefrom project, at about the mid-widths of the re spective sides, the triangular shaped ridges 7, which are arranged to have the sloping faces 8 thereof extend from the apices 9 of the ridges to the adjacent corners 10 of the body. These angles, 9 and 10, as well as the gullets, or reentrant angles, 11, are desirably rounded, as shown in drawings, to facilitate the manufacture of the device and also render the same better able to withstand the shocks to which it is subjected from wagon wheels.

In practice, a conduit is embedded in a road-bed so that one of its faces 6 will be flush, or even with, the surface 12 of the road, see Fig. 1, and with the adjacent sloping face Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 22, 1908.

Patented July 20, 1909.

Serial No. 444,833.

8 disposed upon the down hill side. The conduits are placed to extend diagonally across the'paths made by wagon wheels so that the exposed ridge of each will obstruct any water that may be flowing down hill in the wheel tracks and turn the same-therefrom.

The ridges upon the sides and bottom of a conduit serve to prevent the device from being dislodged from the ground through any force to which it is likely to be subjected, and, when the uppermost, or exposed ridge, has been worn, the device may be successively taken out and re-bedded to present an unimpaired ridge and gullet.

Ordinarily these conduits would be made of lengths of about five-feet and, while primarily intended for use in diverting streams of surface water, by making them longer or by putting several of them end to end so that the bores 13 thereof will be in alinement, they will furnish a culvert wherethrough the water below the surface, or to one side, of a road may be drained.

WVhat I claim, is-

1. A water conduit for use in roads composed of a hollow body formed with a plurality of ridges on its periphery, said conduit being adapted to be embedded in the road so as to extend transversely thereto, and to have one of its ridges project upwardly from the surface'of the road.

2. A water conduit-for use in roads composed of a hollow body having quadrilaterally disposed faces formed with a plurality of ridges on its periphery, said ridges being approximately triangular in cross section and having their apices rounded, said body being adapted to be disposed transversely with respect to the road and to have one of its ridges project above the surface of the road, one of said triangular faces of said ridges to slope toward the road surface, and one of said quadrilaterally disposed faces to lie flush with the road surface.

3. A water conduit for use in roads composed of a body adapted to be embedded in the road transversely to the same, said and to have one of its ridges project above body being formed with an upwardly prothe road surface, the remaining of said jecting ridge to form a gullet to intercept ridges to serve as means to anchor the body water on the road surface, and carry the in the road-bed.

5 same to one side of the road. In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 4. A water conduit for use in roads comin the presence of two witnesses. posed of a body adapted to be disposed trans- \VILLARD HOUGHTON. versely with relation to the road and formed Vitnesses: with a series of ridges of similar character, PIERRE BARNES,

10 said body to be embedded in the road-bed J. A. ROBERTS. 

